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B-02 / Strategic assessment

Move promising commercial technology into operational use

Existing pathways; coordination challenge

Existing pathway

Research/prototype OTs, commercial-solution competitions, experimental procurement, SBIR/STTR and follow-on acquisition can connect experimentation to production.

What remains unresolved

The handoff to an operational sponsor, production/sustainment account, test approval and contracting/agreements official remains transaction-specific.

Coordination or legislative question

Identify the transition sponsor and future buyer at the beginning; an execution handoff failure is not proof of absent authority.

Analytical mapping from the cited demand to statutory mechanisms; not a claim that the strategy expressly requests every possible mechanism.

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